Can you understand The Dark Knight without watching Batman Begins?

Answer 1

It would make more sense to see the movie with the origin story for Batman first. The Scarecrow has a cameo at the beginning of the second film, so the viewer would be more familiar with what is going on if they had already seen him as an important character in the first film. The film is probably able to be followed okay by itself, but it is a sequel expecting the viewer to already have seen the original.

Answer 2

== == == == === === 1- Batman Begins is begun, continued and ended with a nice genuine story rather than The Dark Knight in which Joker is a supper-supper-natural plotter only by himself.

2- Batman Begins is more classical, emotional and influential especially in a moral view in contrast with TDK which has only more ACTIONS/ ADVENTURES.

3- Batman Begins has a powerful influential Dialogues in contrast with TDK (Remember "Finders keepers"; "It's not who I am underneath, but what I *do* that defines me" and so on…)

4- Actress Katie Holmes (Rachel Dawes) in Batman Begins is exchanged with another one(Maggie Gyllenhaal) apparently without any convincing reason in the TDK which has a very bad influence for the watchers of the BB.

---- I've written these reasons also in the link bellow:

http://bui4ever.com/2008/08/the-dark-knight-was-good-batman-begins-was-better/

Answer 3

This movie takes place after "Batman Begins". It has the Joker in it as the villain. Two-Face also appears as a less important villain who causes Batman to get in trouble with the Gotham police for a crime he did not commit. That leaves a cliffhanger for the third movie "The Dark Knight Rises" which will be the final film in the series.